Horrible people. I hope their employers find out what shit they’ve got on their payroll and kick them out
These people are not outliers. These people are the Torries targeted voter base. It’s how they will win the next election, with negative politics. “Everything will get worse, but we will hurt the other people more than we hurt you”
Wow. They make some of the anti-refugee commenters here look practically sane.
That was a really well written, well researched article. I also appreciate how the journalist saw these people hiding behind their flippant emoji use and engaged them (in a civil way) in debate, backed up by facts and data.
Be great to see more pieces like this.
Kent in a nutshell. Worst place by far that I have lived in the UK.
.. and that includes Milton Keynes.
Wow that was some of the best vox pop article writing I’ve seen, not only from trying to hear out comments, as distressing as they were, but analysing them, disputing them and pointing out issues in publishing. Must have taken some strong wills to react calmly to the abuse.
That publishers putting up posts aren’t allowed to govern what emoji reactions they want to get, which is little different to restricting comments seems bad. Especially when that really does seem to add to a collective mentality, one that that can evidently draw someone down into depressingly cynical and ill thought out reactions. Reactions that are peculiarly ironic given how many of them block once faced with someone willing to talk to them on the social media they chose to comment on.
“Because of all the ***** my daughter can’t get doctors appointments because there is too many of them here now causing a strain on our NHS. There is veteran’s on the streets when there being put up in hotels (sic).”
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Wonder who steve votes for.
The irony of it all is this:
> Somewhat ironically, given how many of the people I message have been vocal supporters of Brexit in the past, Britain did have more tools at its disposal when it was a member of the EU. The Dublin Regulations required asylum seekers to register a claim in the first EU country they reached and for the decision of that country to be final.
Common practice sadly, I remember when Grenfell happened and the amount of people saying stuff like ‘Karma’ with laughing emojis was disgusting.
This country has so many cunts
Can anyone copy and paste please? Impossible to read on mobile, page keeps forcing itself back to top of page.
I love it. There should be a team of journalists doing this constantly.
>Kurds, like Baran and many of those who drowned, are among the largest groups to make the crossing. They are also the largest ethnic group without a state on the planet and have fled persecution for decades, often settling in Europe.
Maybe someone should tell Steve that the Kurds have long worked alongside our own vets that are on the streets and have no doubt at some point saved their lives.
>informing me she laughed “because our country looks after illegals before our own people!!!”
These thick twats really don’t do any sense making do they?
Because our mental health and welfare programmes are so broken it means its the fault of these immigrants and they deserve to die? I can only think she is thick and has been brainwashed by far right narratives.
Do they appreciate the irony, I wonder, that most sane people would rather live next door to an iraqi refugee than someone who would laugh at the victims of a mass drowning? Like it’s really no contest at all.
It’s honestly pretty difficult to imagine people have such disdain for other human’s struggles to actually feel some sense of joy or happiness when they end up dying trying to cross the Channel in search of a better life. That particular story about 27 dying included pregnant women and children too… wtf
These articles should really be using the full names of the heroes spouting off.
My dad spouts some of this stuff (he is not heartless and would not wish death on these people by any stretch), things like :
‘They are supposed to seek refuge in the first country they get to not travel through them’
Told me this almost verbatim last week. I do hate modern media and how it shapes peoples viewpoints.
This article kind of reminds me that many people’s response to people dying from COVID was “so what, people die all the time”. This does nothing more than reinforced my thoughts that in general most people think life is cheap.
This isn’t good.
See another post of mine, but I was doxed by a Facebook group of a few thousand local people for accidentally hitting the laugh emoji on a news article about a heritage railway being set on fire (I am part of the charity!)
6 hours I didn’t realise it, and people hacked.my account, leaked private pictures and my address, rang the police on me, and accused me entirely of the crimes. For weeks I didn’t want to leave the house.
No-one apologised at all, some even saying I deserved it even more for it being an accident.
Encouraging witch hunts on something as inconsiquentioal as a Facebook post, resulting in photographs of me as a child being shared online is not a good thing.
Jesus wept. 20% of the reactions were laughing a emoji? The fuck is wrong with people?
After any horrible event go to the appropriate Facebook page and you will see laughing reactions. I noticed this a long time ago and have even been tempted to message the people myself. Heck I’ve even found them on LinkedIn and been tempted to tell their bloody boss but have always held back. Interesting that someone actually did an article on it
I’ve been saying for a while now that publishers should be able to disable certain reactions on certain types of posts. A big part of the problem isn’t the behaviour itself but other people seeing it and thinking it’s acceptable.
Is this writer new to the internet?
Yeah the dude is a huge piece of shit but you’ve given him the attention he wants. He will use this as a springboard to spout even more hate which no doubt get him onto the radio or TV which means his stupid dumbshit can reach even more like minded people.
The best way to deal with these shitheads is to just block/delete them. Dont give them a platform to speak on.
>As the 24-year-old and around 30 others were crammed into a flimsy dinghy on the French coast Karzan began intently following her progress on Snapchat’s maps feature.
How bad must things be in France for someone to contemplate doing that?
I realise there are various reasons some refugees would prefer to come to the UK, but the danger of the journey must be very obvious at the point you actually climb into the dinghy. What are they expecting the UK to be like, to make it worth risking your life for?
There has to be something fundamentally broken with a person who can laugh at the knowledge of somebody experiencing what is largely accepted to be one of the worst way to die.
Does anyone else find it impossible to read this article in a mobile browser? Every time I try to scroll past the header the page jumps back to the top with no explanation
I see the same shit when bbcnews Wales posts stuff like this. It’s depressing
This ‘journalist’ seems to have spent the morning deleting their vile racist tweets.
If you think the emojis were bad that’s nothing to his jew hating, racist comments he’s been happy to post on the net.
> The Dublin Regulations required asylum seekers to register a claim in the first EU country they reached and for the decision of that country to be final.
Sure looks like they passed through a shit tonne of the EU to get to our shore
Anyone’s eyebrows raised by the fact that the ‘journalist’ hasn’t included any sort of evidence that these conversations actually happened? Also slightly curious that he would use names that seem pretty stereotypical. The whole article reads like a fantasy power trip.
I don’t doubt these types of people exist, in fact *I know* they do. But this article in particular really reeks of a load of made-up BS.
Read the Kent online comments sections. It’s pretty disturbing. A few years back when a migrant managed to get through the channel tunnel, a commenter on Kent Online said we should have machine gun nests at the entrance to shoot them as they come through. It got a considerable number of up votes and supporting comments. Kent really is a cess pool of bitter little Englanders.
It’s the same everywhere. Even on politician’s pages.
Lee Andersons supporters in particular are vile
This is the farage effect, his actions and words amongst others has led many to this kind of behaviour…
Edit: not that cunts like this didn’t exist before farage of course…
I feel sorry for the people who drowned, but I feel even more sorry for the people still trapped in France.
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Horrible people. I hope their employers find out what shit they’ve got on their payroll and kick them out
These people are not outliers. These people are the Torries targeted voter base. It’s how they will win the next election, with negative politics. “Everything will get worse, but we will hurt the other people more than we hurt you”
Wow. They make some of the anti-refugee commenters here look practically sane.
That was a really well written, well researched article. I also appreciate how the journalist saw these people hiding behind their flippant emoji use and engaged them (in a civil way) in debate, backed up by facts and data.
Be great to see more pieces like this.
Kent in a nutshell. Worst place by far that I have lived in the UK.
.. and that includes Milton Keynes.
Wow that was some of the best vox pop article writing I’ve seen, not only from trying to hear out comments, as distressing as they were, but analysing them, disputing them and pointing out issues in publishing. Must have taken some strong wills to react calmly to the abuse.
That publishers putting up posts aren’t allowed to govern what emoji reactions they want to get, which is little different to restricting comments seems bad. Especially when that really does seem to add to a collective mentality, one that that can evidently draw someone down into depressingly cynical and ill thought out reactions. Reactions that are peculiarly ironic given how many of them block once faced with someone willing to talk to them on the social media they chose to comment on.
“Because of all the ***** my daughter can’t get doctors appointments because there is too many of them here now causing a strain on our NHS. There is veteran’s on the streets when there being put up in hotels (sic).”
​
Wonder who steve votes for.
The irony of it all is this:
> Somewhat ironically, given how many of the people I message have been vocal supporters of Brexit in the past, Britain did have more tools at its disposal when it was a member of the EU. The Dublin Regulations required asylum seekers to register a claim in the first EU country they reached and for the decision of that country to be final.
Common practice sadly, I remember when Grenfell happened and the amount of people saying stuff like ‘Karma’ with laughing emojis was disgusting.
This country has so many cunts
Can anyone copy and paste please? Impossible to read on mobile, page keeps forcing itself back to top of page.
I love it. There should be a team of journalists doing this constantly.
>Kurds, like Baran and many of those who drowned, are among the largest groups to make the crossing. They are also the largest ethnic group without a state on the planet and have fled persecution for decades, often settling in Europe.
Maybe someone should tell Steve that the Kurds have long worked alongside our own vets that are on the streets and have no doubt at some point saved their lives.
>informing me she laughed “because our country looks after illegals before our own people!!!”
These thick twats really don’t do any sense making do they?
Because our mental health and welfare programmes are so broken it means its the fault of these immigrants and they deserve to die? I can only think she is thick and has been brainwashed by far right narratives.
Do they appreciate the irony, I wonder, that most sane people would rather live next door to an iraqi refugee than someone who would laugh at the victims of a mass drowning? Like it’s really no contest at all.
It’s honestly pretty difficult to imagine people have such disdain for other human’s struggles to actually feel some sense of joy or happiness when they end up dying trying to cross the Channel in search of a better life. That particular story about 27 dying included pregnant women and children too… wtf
These articles should really be using the full names of the heroes spouting off.
My dad spouts some of this stuff (he is not heartless and would not wish death on these people by any stretch), things like :
‘They are supposed to seek refuge in the first country they get to not travel through them’
Told me this almost verbatim last week. I do hate modern media and how it shapes peoples viewpoints.
This article kind of reminds me that many people’s response to people dying from COVID was “so what, people die all the time”. This does nothing more than reinforced my thoughts that in general most people think life is cheap.
This isn’t good.
See another post of mine, but I was doxed by a Facebook group of a few thousand local people for accidentally hitting the laugh emoji on a news article about a heritage railway being set on fire (I am part of the charity!)
6 hours I didn’t realise it, and people hacked.my account, leaked private pictures and my address, rang the police on me, and accused me entirely of the crimes. For weeks I didn’t want to leave the house.
No-one apologised at all, some even saying I deserved it even more for it being an accident.
Encouraging witch hunts on something as inconsiquentioal as a Facebook post, resulting in photographs of me as a child being shared online is not a good thing.
Jesus wept. 20% of the reactions were laughing a emoji? The fuck is wrong with people?
After any horrible event go to the appropriate Facebook page and you will see laughing reactions. I noticed this a long time ago and have even been tempted to message the people myself. Heck I’ve even found them on LinkedIn and been tempted to tell their bloody boss but have always held back. Interesting that someone actually did an article on it
I’ve been saying for a while now that publishers should be able to disable certain reactions on certain types of posts. A big part of the problem isn’t the behaviour itself but other people seeing it and thinking it’s acceptable.
Is this writer new to the internet?
Yeah the dude is a huge piece of shit but you’ve given him the attention he wants. He will use this as a springboard to spout even more hate which no doubt get him onto the radio or TV which means his stupid dumbshit can reach even more like minded people.
The best way to deal with these shitheads is to just block/delete them. Dont give them a platform to speak on.
>As the 24-year-old and around 30 others were crammed into a flimsy dinghy on the French coast Karzan began intently following her progress on Snapchat’s maps feature.
How bad must things be in France for someone to contemplate doing that?
I realise there are various reasons some refugees would prefer to come to the UK, but the danger of the journey must be very obvious at the point you actually climb into the dinghy. What are they expecting the UK to be like, to make it worth risking your life for?
There has to be something fundamentally broken with a person who can laugh at the knowledge of somebody experiencing what is largely accepted to be one of the worst way to die.
Does anyone else find it impossible to read this article in a mobile browser? Every time I try to scroll past the header the page jumps back to the top with no explanation
I see the same shit when bbcnews Wales posts stuff like this. It’s depressing
This ‘journalist’ seems to have spent the morning deleting their vile racist tweets.
If you think the emojis were bad that’s nothing to his jew hating, racist comments he’s been happy to post on the net.
https://i.imgur.com/vX2Z11I.jpg
https://np.reddit.com/r/MTN_PICS/comments/r6bx53/journais_4234234/
https://np.reddit.com/r/MTN_PICS/comments/r6cli2/journis_123891762/
https://np.reddit.com/r/MTN_PICS/comments/r6bj8r/journalis_1123213/
> The Dublin Regulations required asylum seekers to register a claim in the first EU country they reached and for the decision of that country to be final.
Sure looks like they passed through a shit tonne of the EU to get to our shore
Anyone’s eyebrows raised by the fact that the ‘journalist’ hasn’t included any sort of evidence that these conversations actually happened? Also slightly curious that he would use names that seem pretty stereotypical. The whole article reads like a fantasy power trip.
I don’t doubt these types of people exist, in fact *I know* they do. But this article in particular really reeks of a load of made-up BS.
Read the Kent online comments sections. It’s pretty disturbing. A few years back when a migrant managed to get through the channel tunnel, a commenter on Kent Online said we should have machine gun nests at the entrance to shoot them as they come through. It got a considerable number of up votes and supporting comments. Kent really is a cess pool of bitter little Englanders.
It’s the same everywhere. Even on politician’s pages.
Lee Andersons supporters in particular are vile
This is the farage effect, his actions and words amongst others has led many to this kind of behaviour…
Edit: not that cunts like this didn’t exist before farage of course…
I feel sorry for the people who drowned, but I feel even more sorry for the people still trapped in France.